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About The independent. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1907)
THE NEBRASKA. INDEPENDENT APRIL 11. !7. That Tired Feeling That cornea to you every spring Js a sign that your blood is waDting in vitality, just as pimples and other erup tions are signs that your blood is im- pure. One of the great facts of experience and observation is that Hood's Sarsa parilla always removes That Tired Feel ing, gives new life, new courage, strength and animation; cleanses the blood, clears the complexion, builds up the whole system. This is one of the reasons why Hood's Sarsaparilla is the Best Spring Medicine. Accept no substitute for Hood's Sarsaparilla Insist on having Hood's. Get it today. In liquid or tablet form. 100 Doses $1. WHAT WAR MRANS. liaion Kaneko of Japan, writing of I ho fatuity of thinking about war te tv,'sen Japan and the Unite.! Spates tells this story: At the time of a certain heated con troversy between Great Britain and tne United States, Lord Granville, the min ister of foreign affairs, and Mr. Mot ley, t!p American minister, sat together in the office of the former. The air was full of war rumors. "Mr. Motley," said Lord Granville, "there is no use of our discussing this matter diplomatically. I ask you for a Bimple answer, to one question: Shall it be war or peace?' " To this ultimatum, after a moment, Mr. Motley replied: "If your lordship thinks that war is the only form of settlement of thi3 question I have only one suggestion to make. That 13, that you burn the city of Liverpool by your order and our government will bum the city of New York." Liverpool was full of American raw material. New York warehouses were packed with British manufactures. The British minister saw the point and the dispute was settled without further talk of war. There is reason to believe that the contending trainmen and railroad man agers in Chicago are also seeing the point Their more recent intercourse has abounded less in ultimatums, and the prospects for "peace are roseate at this writing. THE GOTERWOR'S COTKIItLTIOI. It is beginning to dawn upon soma of the members of the legislature that Governor Sheldon and his wifehave contributed materially to the good record of the present sesion by giving the members of both houses an op portunity to meet socially every Thurs day evening. When the governor was a member of the legislature he felt the need of such meetings, and in augurated tho custom as soon as it was in his power to do bo. The failure of the lobby to get a hold upon the members was the first sign of the emancipation of the state. Then a.s the members met weekly at the gov ernor's house they began to feel a new solidarity ' and awakening respect for themselves and their work and for a government that could run itself in the interests of the whole state. All this developed pride in the governor and the things he stands for. and a feeling of relief that the old conditions have gone for good. The citizens of Lincoln, who have in the course of years grown to be indif ferent and cynical as to governors and legislatures are among the first to wel come the new order. There is general agreement hero that the thanks of the wnate to the governor and his wife for their hospitality are well deserved. Thete young people have dignified th? office and have made the executive mansion, as It ought to be, the first house in the capital in the res'pt and rgnrd r tlu people. a mn ix the iiAxn. Probably nobody in or out of Ne braska keeps in doner touch with the temper of the Nebraska reople than Kenator BnrVett. He assert" that the people of Nebraska want President Hoonevolt for another term "and no body elso" and couples this with his wn prefii determination "to b for President Roonevelt anc nobody ebe." Kenator NeUon of Minnesota haa Jut reptld to a question nn to Mr. Roo.- velt s avaiiammy ror n ai in me un to from New York that it 1 u.lfw to talk about wurh a thing Iicauc "the tvoplrt -m to hav their mind'. tlivl on no other presidential randl irt than Mr. RoonH " Mr, IhmwvcU wilt not accept a r nominators, but the popular etate o? mind thut prompts th' nn!l'.ptt PAilKLk'tl HAIR BALSAM fail t Wr Wwj to take him at his word Is a significant sign. The country has had a taste of Roosevelt policy, and it wants ta be sure of more. Were it sure of finding in someone elf: a candidate with power and principles to match his 'i would probably turn to that candidate cheerfully enough. There are sucb men, and the country knows who they are; but it is not certain of its ability with Roosevelt out of the way to pre vent the nomination of a question mark candidate. A disposition to keep hold of the bird in the hand till the bird Jn the bush is fairly snared seems to be the true interpretation of the present overwhelming, country wide Roosevelt-for-president sentiment. MAIL AND KXPRESS CHARGICS. Professor Adams, statistician of the interstate commerce commission, finds that the New York Central railroad charges the government $31.73 for a given service in carrying mail for the government, while it charges $10 for an equal service performed for an ex press company. It is commonly charged that this practice is univer sal Yet this does not prove that the charges to the government are three limes too high, or that they are not four or five times too high. The ex press companies are now in the main companies of the railroads or side Jinofi with men who control railroads. In the one case it is a matter of no great importance what the railroad charges its subsidiary company for carrying its cars, since the net profits go to the same pockets in the end. Such companies are useful because they can charge more for carrying merchan dise than the railroad proper is per mitted to charge. Jn the case where the company is run as. a side line of the men controlling the railroad it. is iikely to be charged an esceedinslv low rate, lower than the welfare of the road really warrants. In this way the stockholders of the road may be exploited for the benefit of the man agers thereof. - ' . A NARROW ESCAPE. "A conflagration probably the great, est one In the history of our town was narrowly averted last Friday night by Night Watchman Holmes." Thus a Missouri paper; and that is" about the way the west feels over the trainmen's strike which did not hap pen. A. week ago there was every reason to dread another experience Buch as magnified the grief of the west in 1894. Largely through the interven tion of government agents, lacking au thority to do anything more than argue, but backed by the moral support of the country, the railroads and the trainmen have compromised their dif ferences. The contrary result might have been shock enough to create gen eral commercial embarrassment. Be fore forgetting the scare at what might have been "the most disastrous conflagration in our history," it would not hurt -to consider seriously the proposition laid down by Carroll D. Wright after holding an Inquest in be half of the government on the great strike of 1894: Railroads are quasi public corporations, and incur with that status certain obligations, such as the obligation to keep their trains run ning. Are not railroad employes then quasi-public servants with the appro priate obligations that go with that status, an obligation, for example, to submit together with their employers, to the arbitration of such difference's as have recently existed? RKPBKSEXTEII NEBRASKA. Nebraska has to thank its late legis lature for justifying renewed confi dence In the principle of tpresenta tive government. Said a critic of our plan of government lately: "Your representative system would be fine ex cept that your representatives do nof reprenent at least not you." The Nebraska representatives who have just ended their work have proved that the representative system can be made to represent those whom it should represent. The demonstra tion was simple. It began with the uncommon spectacle of a peoplj united and active In nominating and electing reliable representatives and Impressing them with what was expected of them. It continued with a people watchful of the progress of legislation, tnpf.int to pnconratre the representative and to warn the misrcpresejitative. To the exceptional glory of the Nebraska rep resentatives and enators It is to be paid that they did not much requir to be wntehed or to lie urgtnl on. On the whole they did cheerfully and hon extlr what thev hA pledged them ftIVM to do. Tl' bgl.-Ution of fundnmenMl Im portance effected by theate representa tive H all aimed at Incrranv-d tae of maintaining representative govern rnl that represents. The dtructon of the puss, of th r.crr.!r.st'r mftrM of unbridled rtil'-oid power, evrn the restrictive liquor UtUtlm Involves the removal of obstruct lvi to securing rerrrntAMve who will represent tti" voter This U r'"!i!r In n word. h ! v i ' i 'he ropl ef N'trn-V?t tin mlri'd-d epjeri!ty to hm- such legislatures as this every time there is a legislature to be elected; and other officials ,to match. They a. now free political agents. They can take up or throw away their opportunity accord ing as they are interested and intelli gent or apathetic and dull. IX EGYPT. - Lord Cromer, British agent in Egypt, a term which means practically gov ernor of Egypt,-, reports the unusual case of a Mohammedan people de manding a democratic government. In 1882 Great Britain, under the form of protecting her Suez canal, put down a rebellion in Egypt and established a virtual protectorate under promise to withdraw in six months. Mustapha Kamel Pasha and his nationalists have now begun to inquire whether the six months is not abcut expired, and have made emphatic pus-gefclions of a grad ual process of leaving Egypt in con trol of its own affairs. At the meet ing in February of the Egyptian gen eral assembly, a tdy with about the same authority as our Porto Rican assembly or the soon, to be established Philippine parliament, lt gave form to a considerable list . of measures tending to Egyptian control of their own affairs. An Egyptian parliament was requested, together with an Egyptian monopoly of the good puo lic offices, the destruction of the mo nopoly in steamship service to Mecca, the teaching of Arabic exclusively m the public schools, and the abolition of the tax on date palm trees. Lord Cromer -suggests that the agitation ?s an outcropping of the pan-lslamtc movement which Is said to be making headway in various parts of the Mo hammedan world. The 'leruana for representative institutions can hardly be anything but a ruse. Until the Persian shah made his . late experi ment In democracy any Mohammedan government without its autocratic sul tan with an executioner at his bacK was well nigh unthinkable. KXTERPUISKIX tlllA.. That the Cubans are smart enough for self government can hardly be doubted following the example of quick wit seen since the beginning of the American occupation. When the rebels were forced to bring in and lay down their arms, it was noticed that the weapons presented were of a high ly time. worn type. - Secretary Taft tumbled at once to the probability that the new weapons used in the rebellion were safely concealed, while the island was raked for worn out guns to be turned in to the government. A com mission to audit claims for damage to property resulting from the rebellion has already filed claims amounting to several million dollars, half of which comes from Santa Clara province, which was not reached at all by the rebellion. The most inspiring instance of Cuban adaptation to environment followed the decision of the government that the mounted rebels should keep their horses, and that the government would reimburse persons from whom horses had been stolen. Although net one In ten of the rebels had before beer, mounted, some 89 per cent have ridden to headquarters with animals which are alleged to have carried them through the war. Promptly behind them come other persons, cften a father, mother, brother or sister, to set up a claim to reimbursement for the animal which they declare was stolen from them. These claims now exceed a million dollars. Men have been known to steal each others horses, lay claim to ownership as rebels, and then claim re-imbursement for having lost a horse by theft. Nothing more brilliant than these deeds of thrift in Cuba will be found in the annals of the United States, not even in connection with the lieu land law or the government range and timber domain. PARTY PLATFORMS. The opponents of the primary look ing ovor the new Nebraska law to find much desired obstacles to its success, have hit upon the platform provision as the one to discredit the whcl-j sya-tc-m of direct nominations. The plat forms are to bo mad in the future ac cording to section 31 of the new law:" The first Saturday after the pri mary election the nominees for county officers Khali meet nt the county seat of the respective counties in this state, i-nd by a majority vote thereof select orifj oMujiUteeuian from ench township or prvclnet lr .snid county, ami wlthli one wwk ther-.iftei fid committeemen , M)'tts) Mull int and lHt h ihalrmiin of the county rcntral com mittee of his repectlv party and t ald ttm shall elect -ma rlleifn t who thttll meet with like delegate chosen in 1 1 1 auiM way from each county In the ute at th capltol at It o' lock, meridian, on thw fourth Tudy In t!-ptem-er, ltiOT. wn4 annually thfrenf. tr on Ihw tnnri TivwalaY tr. HItem- IfT. and -Ul dU.f aih hH forthwith formulate -tho tit pUtform of thHi parly itid ilect a sUt rnwl com-tnltt- composed of eni memr for m h i4tot 1m tsd from each ni j In I Unrl(t rd I oHt.- rlfi i' l ihtsl! tlfv4 Us t ttitti mini uiid Do You Open Your Month Like a young bird kud gulp down what ever food or medicine may be offered you? Or, do you want to know something of the composition and character of that which you take into your stomach whether as food or medicine ? Most intelligent and sensible people uow-a-days insist on knowing what they employ whether as food or as medicine. Dr. Pierce beJietes they have a perfect right to insist upon such knowledge. So he publishes,"4adcast and on each bottle wrapper, whatjl.'dicines are made of anaveesJjjrar-eatb ThisJhe feels he can mLXnord jpdo because the njorw thcingredientsof which his medicines aremade i are "studied and understood th" more will "their superior curatfve virtues lVaplirecTajed,L ' '-" " For the cure of woman's peculiar weak nesses, irregularities and derangements giving rise to frequent headaches, back ache, dragging-down pain or distress in lower abdominal or pelvic region, accom panied, ofttimes, with a debilitating, pelvic, catarrhal drain and kindred symp toms of weakness, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is a most efticient remedy. It Is equally effective in curing painful periods, in giving strength to nursing mothers and in preparing the system of the expectant mother for baby's coming, thus rendering childbirth safe and com paratively painless. The "Favorite Pre scription " is a most potent, strengthening tonic to the general system and to the organs distinctly feminine in particular. It is also a -soothing-, and invigorating nervine and cures nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea or St. VItuss dance, and other distressing nervous symptoms at tendant upon functional and organic dis eases of the distinctly feminine organs. A host of medical authorit ies of all the -fscvcral schools of practice, recommend each of the several ingredients of which "Favorite Prescription" is inad for the cureof the diseases for which it is claimed to be a cure. You may read what they say for yourself, by send in? a postal card request for a free booklet - of extracts from the leading authorities, to Dr. K. V. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In stitute. Buffalo, V. Y.. and it will come to you by return secretary. The platform of each party shall be framed at such time, and shall he made public not later than 6 o'clock in tho afternoon of the following dir. Senator Joe Burns wa the first of the reactionists to point out that thi meant inevitable disaster. '.'Under ihhs act," eays Joe, "the emallest country will have Just a much influence a Tjouglag or Lancaster," Thi-refyr dratic platforms that will brln about inevitable defeat, But will that b fh result? . Tht object of a fslatfoTtn i i win fn unwitting e&mmunily, VMr ib. id fy&tem five mm wtrts & tittrm .frf4 it WHS p&mU4 ftftA ft&9pte4 twmMy unmimswiy tmd witimti hats, in th eUmlng hearts &i & mmm itm, VMm' ths mw watem ftlf f th p&rtv pl<&nn GGmmikms trill hrf m th mme day in ih et-i mtAUtl will h m wUtittfie t wt wh&t tlw? pftrtks d$tf&r$ in ttrfat u &tttnpi t mteh th bfe (d paWie pinion lit ome ether lAt. It k to be thai at o'clock et tmmi day, all ef th platform will be r5 Umtd vimult&mauxly, e&eh urn ihe rtttlt 6t lf Sellbrtbjn hy ninety fUted men, every tmn th direct rtv resistfttivp 0f pandlds, who wnt to m fleeted to ofJlce on th nc?eptod plat term. Yhn SyrMm ought to produce a stronger party oonnciouimesa tlutn the hftulifiard plan, and give better written, mere tt und more xharply defined plftlform. lu time a Mat in a platform eonvpntlon will curry with it tiKt!1t honor to cauxa the real Intel liual l4r In eah party to dfr a I1r lhr, Imtt, a fconventiuti of ninety republicans in the senate cham ber, with tho leader of the present enute In the chairs they lm occupied for thr months, and other men of h'co caliber on the floor with them. They will meet with election creden tials, and will aot under authority of th Uw It need not be aked if nuch a body will not produce better platform and 4rkp a utronf er party iiplrit anl OTKnlzatlon than the itw-carTit-tl mobs thit bare named t1rkU an.1 4 mm' IslM ;4ity principle during lb but Iwentyflv year In Nehraitca. V ---i. , n ..w.. r-'V r; r 1 1 ncnni ion m 4a, M mm M DAYS TBI 4L b4 iI-AJ" GUARANTY ,kiwiMitM ru !-- mM-OTM kik, Ht ti vol hh f wtmf. 4